10,000 Missed Opportunities a Year
Today, most large internet companies run 10,000 or more experiments a year to improve things like user engagement, ad conversions, and the like. In comparison, how many experiments are done each year in the US studying the effectiveness of the elementary math curriculum? Is this satisfactory, considering the US has some 90,000 primary schools, and 33 million elementary students? Arguably, the present status quo in testing and innovation is simply immoral. After all, it's not